Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-08
Psnn.yI,aal. democratic coa,spiIoa.

PennsyISania Democratic ConEentioB.
The Pennsylvania State Democratic
state Convention was held at Allentown.
Ex-eongressman Post was made tempo
rary chairman. The COMMITTEES OF resolu-
tions then met and, on motion OF DIR. Ran
dali, Congressnan Scott was made chair
man. A subcommittee OF six. headed by
Mr.. Scott. was appointed by the chair to
prepare a report.
The convention then proceeded to the
nomination OF candidates. ]. Rose
Thompson vas nominated for supreme
| Judge and b. ]. McGrann for state treasur-
er. Chairman Scott, from the committee on
resolutions. reported the platform, saying
1t was unanimously agreed on. and the
| meeting had been most harmonious. The
resolutions simply reafiirm the resoiu-
tions Of the Chicago Convention Of 1884.
| Henry Saunders, an intelligent farmer OF
Oak Lake, Manitoba who lost his yoies
| during his service in the Northw est rebell-
ion through exposure and has since been
receiving a pension from the dominion
| government, surprised his vile by eonvers-
Ing with her freely one morning recently,
and now talks better than ever. He
wants his pension continued.
BY the retirement of the Rear Admiral
John Lee Davis, which was announced.
| the following promotions will be caused.
Commodore Brown TO be rear admiral;
Capt. George Brown. commodore; Com
mander William White, head captain;
| Lieut.. Commander G.. A. Shetky, comman-
| der; Lieut.. ID. r. Oily, lieutenant comman-
der, Lieut.. s. o. Nicholson Junior gradel,
lieutenant; Ensign q. W.. Denied, lieuten-
ant Junior grade}. Rear Admiral John
Lee Davis has been relieved from duty us
president OF the retiring board and placed
on the retired list.
Mrs. 81. L. Jones, a pretty blonde. aged
| thirty-fve, widow ofJames Whitaay Jones,
druggist, caused the arrest, at Chicago of
Capt. Charles II. Leroy on n charge of
bigamy. Mrs. Jones met the colonel at
Milwaukee last winter. where he lived at
the Plankinton. She had a small fortune
and Leroy won her. On the day they
were married she advanced $500 to get
those diamonds from pawn. Shortly
came a st. Louis letter signed Mrs.
Charles Leroy" telling how May Ellen
Eugent had been duped into marriage with
the gay captain last summer and been de
serted in five days.
William A. Chsdsey, Of a railroad in
Wisconsin,, arrived in New York city from
Glasgow. after an extended visit with his
wife aud children in Scotland. While
smoking a cigar in front oithe Aster House,
an afiable stranger got in conversation
I with him, which was ended by the two gem
tlemen taking a drink with the usual re-
suit the loss OF all his money.
The News has the following dispatch
from the Uintah agency, Utah, Aug. rs:
"Colorow and all his band arrived at
0ursy agency at 100 p. IN. last Saturday,
and say they want no more fighting. The
Indians on both these. reservations were
Yarv u,frr1 axpftal until aaauraA that Colo
RADIO troops would not come on the reser-
walton. Everything is quiet here. The In
dian chiefs all council peace" It is signed
by B. Dudley Williams, NJ. D., agency ply
stefan.
There was a big meteor at Spokane Falls
on the 3Ist. IL struck the electric light
wires in the very heart of the city, cutting
the wires in two and bursting ID into q
thousand fragments. Those who saw the
strange phenomenon say that when 1T
struck tho bah OF fire looked to be ten feet
in diameter.
Chicago Special: The Herald says the
seven condemned anarchists are TO hang.
Information has been received through re
liable sources that the supreme court will
Atm the death verdict against the an
arehists when thSy meet at ottawa.
The opinion in the case will then
be filed by the Justice who made It. and IL
viii receive the signatures of all the other
justices, who, it would appear, are fully ac-
quainted with its contents.
IL is announced by cable from London
that the United States and Great Britain
have agreed to the appointment Of a com,
mission to take into consideration the
fisheries. Generally the commission will
consider all OF the questions o at issue
between the United States and Canada
arising IRON the conflicting claims of the
two countries respecting the fisheries. The
negotiations with Great Britain have,
however. now reached such a phase that
Secretary Bayard is encouraged in the be-
lief that a final adjustment ofthe questions
is near at hand.
The first litigation growing out OF the
Chatsworth horror cropped out in the
shape OF nineteen damage cults aggregatipg
Sl27, 500, which we're begun in the circuit
court. Ten are for IS, 900 each, all death
cases. The Others are for injuries, and de-
mend various sums, reaching in one in
stance $4,000.
In the parliamentary election to ill .he
vacancy In Ramsey. or North division OF
Huntingdon, caused by the acceptance by
William Henry Fellowes, Conservative, Of
an Office under the crown, he wal re- elected
over Mr.. Saunders, the G~ladstonain eandi.
date, by a vote of 2, 700 to 2.4I4. In the
last election Mr.. Fellowes was unopposed.
The york Of e~vieting the tenants in ar
rears or the 0'Grady estates, Ireland, was
concluded without further r~ioting.
A bed ridden woman, who refused to be
installed as caretaker, was removed with
her bed out doors. Mr.. o. Brien denoune.
ed 0'Grady as a worthless, stupid sot and
highway robber, and said that the govern.
ment instead of muzzling the ruffian sol
diers and police, protected his eowardly
carcass and threw out poor women dying
on the dunghills.
Numerous tenant farmers in County Lin
erick nave instructed their solicitors to ap-
ply for a revision Of the rents under the
new land act.
John Bright heartily favors an interna-
tional arbitration treaty.
1t is said thst the porte has accepted
Russia's proposal to send Gen. Ernroth as
provisional governor OF Bulgaria aud East
ern Roumania until q prince for the Bull
garisn throne be- legally elected.
Il is reported that the British cabinet
has decided to modify the proclamation
OF the Irish league so that 1t shall only ap-
ply TO certain districts
Agent Byrnes telegraphs the Indian COM
mission IRON 0uray Agency, Utah, that
the Indians thought they had a right to
hunt on the grounds in Colorado, were
attacked, under the treaty of 1s74.
The president hes retired Lieut.. T. W.
Lord, Twentieth infantry, who was found
ineapaeitated by an army retiring board
for active service on account OF disability
incident to the service. Lieut.. Lord would
coon have become a captain.
Pension Commissioners Black has been
confined to his house since his return from
Weirs, y. H., suffering from an attack of
rheumatism, and has been compelled to
cancel all engagements which would ne
cessitate his leaving the city during the
coming month. Gen. Black said, in refer
ence 20 the published statement that his
name might be presented to the Grand
Army OF the Republic at st. Louis as a
candidate for commandment .chief, that it
was impossible that such a thing should
occur. and that he could not accept the
position If rendered.
The commissioner OF the land office d.
reefs that the lands within the indemnity
belt along the Wisconsin Central and the
Omaha railroads be thrown open TO set.
Element.
Postmasters commissioned Iowa
Haven. Il. o. Nichols; Neville, L. Country
man. Minnesota-Muskado, J.. Prior.
Wiseonsin-Hayward, j.. NJ Custard.
Supervising Inspector General Dumont
has. decided that the hulls and boilers of
all steam yachts. no matter how small,
must undergo inspection. and that their
pilots and engineers must be licensed.
Capt. Cyrus NJ. Delany, 18th infantry,
is ordered to appear before the navy retir.
ing board at st. Paul.
Charles d.. Kennedy, third lieutenant OF
the United States steamer Bear, now cruis-
ing in the Arctic ocean. writes home to his
father, under date OF Port Clarence, July
10, and gives faint hope that some OF the
crew OF twenty-five men belonging to the
whaling bark Napoleon OF this port, lost
in the Arctic in the summer OF 1855. may
yet be alive.